[SML] Pipe Unit Numbering for Corporate Event Plots

[PJ Veltri]

In my limited experience with this type of unit numbering the fixture (channel) numbers tend to be laid out much like all of us use unit numbers. 

It's understanding that they are usually all at least three digit channels laid out  with the first digit representing the truss or pipe number, the second digit representing the unit type and then the third and possibly fourth digits representing the unit number of that type.

I think in an environment where we aren't hanging systems but rather types of lights it's an interesting concept, however in my more or less entirely conventional and system based world it's something that would make my showfile entirely incomprehensible 

PJ Veltri 
Assistant Technical Director
Grosse Pointe Public School System 

> On Apr 27, 2017, at 9:36 PM, June Abernathy via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> First off, what Sam said. Also, I know vocabulary varies from discipline to discipline, but In my world "fixture" and "unit" mean the same thing. If they want to call channel numbers fixture numbers, whatever. But the unit number is the only distinct identifier you have. Units can share addresses, or channels, or circuits, or dimmers. The only way to positively identify a specific unit is to give it a discreet number. I can understand if they want the fixture number to be the most prominent, or in a specific place, or bigger, or whatever. Maybe you can place the unit number slightly outside the body of the lamp drawing?
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> June Abernathy
> IATSE #321 (Tampa, FL)
> FOH Electrician
> The Lion King National Tour
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>> On Apr 26, 2017, at 3:00 PM, stagecraft-request at theatrical.net wrote:
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>> As you might have expected, I have heard of this coming from some concert and corporate event electricians and programmers.  First, a intolerant and theater centric reaction.  They?re $#@% lazy.  The channel
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